The Inglourious Basterds Detail That Makes Hans Landa Even More Terrifying
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is full of little details and pieces of foreshadowing, and there’s one very subtle detail in the opening scene that makes Hans Landa even more terrifying. Quentin Tarantino is one of the most popular and controversial filmmakers in the industry, and throughout his career, he has brought a variety of stories with his trademark style of dialogue and generous amounts of violence. Tarantino rose to fame with two crime movies (Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction), but one of his most popular works is a story that explores an alternate version of historical events.
Released in 2009, Inglourious Basterds is a war movie that tells an alternate version of World War II through two plots: one following a group known as the “Basterds”, led by Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), and another one focused on Shosanna Dreyfus/Emmanuelle Mimieux (Mélanie Laurent), a Jewish cinema owner whose family was killed by SS officer Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). The Basterds and Shosanna had a common goal: kill as many Nazis as possible, including Hitler, but the Führer wasn’t the main villain of the story, and that role belonged to Hans Landa.
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Best known as “The Jew Hunter”, Hans Landa was an SS officer known for his arrogance, ruthlessness, and violent ways, and he took a lot of pride in all that, especially in the nickname given to him. Landa is at the front and center of some of the most memorable moments from Inglourious Basterds, as is the opening scene of the movie. In it, Landa arrives at a French farm where he interrogates Pierre LaPadite about the whereabouts of a Jewish family. The scene is famous for how it builds tension and for
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